Convicts have no constitutional right to DNA evidence testing that might prove their innocence after they have been found guilty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in an Alaska case.
"Where will it stop?" asked Kenai Republican Sen. Tom Wagoner. "Everyone in the state has high fuel bills."
When he wasn't on the phone, Tucker addressed criticism by three prominent elders that people weren't hungry and that Tucker has embarrassed the village by putting it in the national spotlight.
"We just want to be treated fairly," he said, and receive payments comparable to what BP might pay Conoco Phillips or Exxon if one of those companies owned the allotment.
"It was heartbreaking to hear elders in tears broadcasting on the VHF that someone had emptied their fuel drums in the darkness of night. These are people desperate to heat their homes for their families who knowingly committed crimes out of desperation,"
A heartsick letter describing cash-strapped families choosing between food and heating fuel in the village of Emmonak has state officials reconsidering a long-simmering request to declare a financial disaster in the region.
According to the charges, Watkins created an e-mail account in the name of Kathy Darnell, her husband's former wife. Darnell has three children with Watkins' husband, James Scott Watkins.
In short, the doctrine states that the U.S. assumes the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves.
FAIRBANKS -- A Venetie man is accused of using a chain saw to break into the village's store and stealing thousands of dollars worth of tobacco and candy.
Young, a 35-year veteran of the U.S. House and under federal investigation, had held a 239-vote lead over Parnell until the last ballots were counted.
A hacker broke into the Yahoo e-mail account that vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin uses for official business as Alaska's governor as well as for personal communications.
Branchflower also asked for a subpoena for the phone records of one Palin administration official, Frank Bailey.
Alaska -- They have trained in 55 below and 120 above, but in the coming weeks, the more than 4,000 men and women that make up the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry, will face their toughest challenge of all as they head to Iraq for a 12-month tour
''To any critics who say a woman can't think and work and carry a baby at the same time, I'd just like to escort that Neanderthal back to the cave," the Anchorage Daily News quoted Palin saying last March, after the surprise announcement that she was seven months pregnant wit …
You have placed great faith in me," she said. "I promise that I will do my best to make Alaskans proud in the weeks to come. And I will ask you to help me. Let us work together. Let us elect John McCain. He is a friend of Alaska."
His blood tested positive for marijuana after his Chevy Blazer crossed the center line All this talk about Marijuana being a better drug than alcohol, some of these accidents have to make a person wonder if there is any such thing as legalizing marijuana.
Three Alaska athletes competed in the Games, and each left with a medal:
"It was a freak show," Fletcher said Sunday. "The police and an ambulance show up, everybody's running around with bear spray, all these ladies are on cell phones screaming, 'There's three cubs in the tree!'
Who said New Yorkers Don't Care As a mortally injured mother-to-be lay bleeding under a bus, a band of 30 or more everyday heroes rushed to the bus and lifted it high enough for her to be pulled free.
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- Barack Obama's campaign believes Alaska is a battleground state - even with just three electoral votes - and it can make a difference in Illinois senator's effort to become the next president.
Native peoples of the circumpolar areas of the world have always gathered in small villages to participate in games of agility, balance, strength, and endurance .
Eve Fairbanks minces no words. Writing about the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ad buy for the '08 House campaign, she says, "...there is one buy that should excite you: $586,000 in reserved air time against Alaska GOPer Don Young."
The AAA says the average price of regular gas in Alaska is the highest in the nation, topping this month's list at $4.64 a gallon. Alaska is followed by California at $4.51 a gallon and Hawaii at $4.47.
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A Fort Richardson-based paratrooper who had his request for conscientious objector status denied by the U.S. Army while serving in Iraq last year appealed that decision in an Anchorage federal court on Monday.
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